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Legal Thrillers
What can one man do against a huge criminal organization bent on world domination? Jon Land shows us in BLACK SCORPION: THE TYRANT REBORN, and thriller fans will love getting the answer.
The man in question is Michael Tiranno, whose cunning and ruthlessness in business earned him the nickname "The Tyrant." Land introduced him in The Seven Sins. In that novel, Tiranno saved Las Vegas from a terrorist attack. This impressive character fully deserved to return in an even bigger adventure.
"You'd find him captivating, fascinating, charismatic, engaging, and a bit brash," Land says. "The Tyrant inside him only emerges when he, someone close to him, or someone vulnerable, is harmed or threatened. The question, of course, then becomes which is the real Michael Tiranno."
Tiranno gives us a clue to that in BLACK SCORPION when asked why he helps a family that just lost their house to foreclosure. He says, "Because I know what it's like to lose a home." But as Land points out, Tiranno's motivations are more complex than that.
"I think Michael's entire life, the core of his very existence, is about replacing what he lost the day as a young boy he witnessed the murder of his parents," Land says. "But he can never get it, not really, which leads to him being a constantly restless soul moving on from one quest to another."
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By Rick Reed
When you read THE MISSING PIECE, I want you to imagine that you are Gary Martin, a court officer assigned to the New York County Courthouse. You are part of a security team in a civil trial with legal representatives from Croatia and Hungary vying for the ownership of the Salvus Treasure, a $70 million dollar hoard of ancient Roman silver. Suddenly, gunmen burst into the courtroom, shoot you, and flee with one piece of the treasure, a silver urn. A mistrial is declared, but that is not the end of the case.
Much changes over the next three years. As a result of the shooting you are in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. A new judge has inherited the case, and the trial resumes in a different courtroom. What has not changed is that you are still convinced that the thieves hid the missing urn in the courthouse. Is it still there? Will the thieves return to claim it?
Kevin Egan is the author of six previous novels, including Midnight, a Kirkus Best Book of 2013. He works in the iconic New York County Courthouse, which serves as the setting and inspiration for THE MISSING PIECE. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Rosebud, and The Westchester Review. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell University.
THE MISSING PIECE is Kevin Egan's seventh novel and as this thriller plays out he will give his readers an inside view of the legal system, as well as the extralegal system, at play in New York City's courtrooms.
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By Ken Isaacson
Steve Cavanagh's debut novel, THE DEFENCE, features con-artist-turned-top-defense-attorney Eddie Flynn. One advance reviewer has told us to imagine The Verdict's Frank Galvin crossed with The Firm's Mitch McDeere, and you'd get something like Eddie Flynn. This is enough to hook me, and I'm looking forward to the book's release later this month.
The plotline for THE DEFENCE is taut: It's been over a year since Eddie Flynn last set foot in a courtroom. That was for the trial that cost him his career and his family, and Eddie has vowed never to practice law again. But when Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, blackmails Eddie into defending him in a murder trial, Eddie has no choice but to comply. The Russians have kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter Amy and her life is on the line.
With all eyes on this high-profile case, Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and unparalleled skills in the courtroom to defend his client and ensure Amy's safety. Finally forced to confront the demons from his past and come to terms with the case that all but broke him, can Eddie convince the jury of the impossible? And with the clock ticking, will he be able to call on his contacts from the old days in order to double cross the Russians and get his daughter back?
Cavanagh has kindly agreed to answer some questions.
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Priscilla Holmes is a Cape Town–based writer of many sorts of fiction, most recently a crime fiction novel. Set in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, NOW I SEE YOU is a modern-day thriller with dark undertones. It contains love and jealousy, human cruelty and sexual obsession, as well as humor and pathos. Part detective-story, part-elegy for a lost culture, it highlights the enormous changes that have happened, especially for young women in the years since the first democratic elections in South Africa. Thabisa Tswane (the feisty protagonist) is caught between two cultures. NOW I SEE YOU thrusts her into a powerful plot and some dark and dangerous situations.
Please tell us a little about yourself.
I've always been a writer. As a kid I wrote stories for all my friends and family, wrote plays at school satirizing the teachers (nearly got expelled!), and I'm a passionate reader. I worked most of my working life as a communications consultant in Australia, UK, and Hong Kong, and when I came to Johannesburg from Sydney to marry the man of my dreams (and yes, it has worked out!), I started my own training and communications business. We retired to Cape Town seven years ago and I started a writing group—The Write Girls—that has gone from strength to strength. We've collaborated on two novels that have been a great success. In 2004, I published a teenage novel The Children of Mer. And now, of course, I'm thrilled about the publication of NOW I SEE YOU.
NOW I SEE YOU has a deft, light touch. I think Alexander McCall Smith should make space for your fabulous Detective Inspector Thabisa Tswane! How do you feel about that?
Well, what a compliment! However, my book is a much darker, rougher version of his books. We are promoting it as a "thriller" but it really is so much more, with the descriptions of rural life, the violent crimes, and the constant fight for Thabisa between her past and present.
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Mike Pace's new thriller, ONE TO GO, is a deft mix of sub-genres—legal and political with a dash of the supernatural. The story follows a young Washington lawyer, Tom Booker. While driving across Memorial Bridge, Tom, distracted while texting, causes an accident with a minivan carrying five young girls, including his own seven-year-old daughter. The force of the collision flips the van up on two wheels, but just as the vehicle's about to fall into the Potomac River killing all on board time freezes for everyone and everything—except Tom. He exits his car to see his daughter through the van window, frozen in time, but can do nothing to save her. Chad and Brit, a young couple who appear to have just stepped out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad, approach. They offer Tom a Faustian deal, a "rewind" where time would spin back to just before the collision, allowing Tom to avoid the accident—no one would die. The price for this deal? In a "soul exchange" Tom has to agree to kill five random strangers instead. He quickly agrees, anything to save his daughter.
Later Tom laughs at the hallucination he experienced and pays it no mind. Preppy demons from Hell? Ridiculous. Then his sister in law, the driver of the van dies, bludgeoned to death by her husband. Chad and Brit appear on Tom's cell phone screen, smile and say, "One down, four to go."
My God, the bridge incident was real.
Tom has never held, much less fired, a gun in his life. He's lived a middle-class existence in a middle-class neighborhood. Now to save his daughter he must turn into a serial killer and commit a murder every two weeks or the girls in the van will die.
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Abe Beckham, the protagonist of best-selling author James Grippando's compelling new novel, CANE AND ABE, has remained a star prosecutor in the Miami State Attorney's Office despite the untimely death of his first wife, Samantha. His new wife, Angelina, has helped him through the loss. Yet, Angelina can't help feeling that their marriage is not what they'd hoped for because Abe still loves Samantha too much.
Then things go terribly wrong. The FBI has been tracking a killer in South Florida known as "Cutter," whose brutal methods hark back to Florida's dark past, when machete-wielding men cut sugarcane by hand in the blazing sun. A woman's mutilated body is discovered dumped in the Everglades. When Angelina goes missing, Abe becomes a suspect. Was Abe responsible for Angelina's disappearance because of his lingering love for Samantha, or because of a new woman? In the course of answering these questions, CANE AND ABE explores love, death, loyalty, and the dark side of humanity.
At the beginning of CANE AND ABE, you recount an incident that occurred in 1941, when on the promise of steady employment, African American men were led into virtual slavery by the big sugar companies, forced to cut sugarcane by hand at unconscionable wages. How does this past injustice inform your novel?
That backstory is based on the actual indictment of U.S. Sugar by the Department of Justice in 1941, but I didn't include it CANE AND ABE simply to paint the sugar industry as a villain. CANE AND ABE is not a story about "Big Sugar." It's a psychological thriller that's driven by the breakdown of trust between a husband and wife. Abe Beckham is white, and he fell in love with Samantha Vine, a black woman whose father was one of those enslaved sugar workers. Abe made promises to Samantha and her family before she died, including the promise to look after Samantha's bipolar brother. Keeping those promises has consequences for his new marriage. Putting the backstory about Big Sugar upfront—which involved lies and broken promises on a massive scale—establishes a powerful backdrop against which Abe struggles to keep his promises.
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By Wendy Tyson
DEADLINE FOR MURDER, the new novel by Linda Y. Atkins, is the fourth book in the Hilary Adams Mystery Series. In this latest installment, attorney Hilary Adams returns to the defense side of the law and her new client, a crime columnist for the local newspaper, is accused of double homicide. Fast-paced and tightly written, DEADLINE FOR MURDER is a thrilling glimpse into the Louisville legal system.
As a practicing attorney and former prosecutor, Linda Y. Atkins knows her subject. She brings a fresh perspective and a strong dose of realism to her legal thrillers. Recently, THE BIG THRILL had the chance to catch up with Linda.
Hilary Adams is a criminal defense attorney—a job that often demands quick wits, a strong stomach, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. What inspired you to write legal thrillers?
I began writing in the late 1990's after defending a woman accused of murdering three of her own family members. Before I became involved in her case, however, she had already been tried and convicted once, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. On re-trial, the prosecution decided to again seek the death penalty. When my law firm was approached about her case, we knew that representing her would be an uphill battle, but since my husband and I were both death qualified lawyers (meaning we were authorized to represent defendants facing the death penalty as a possible punishment) we accepted the case pro bono. What followed was my first introduction to rural Appalachia, and being from "the big city," as Louisville was described by the local residents in that area, I found the experience both harrowing and hard to shake. So, after it was all over, as a sort of cathartic exercise, I wrote a true crime novel about the struggles we had encountered in events that turned out to be truly stranger than fiction. Though I believed the case and the people involved would provide for riveting reading, unfortunately, the manuscript got no further than the back of a file cabinet in my office. But by that time, I had been bitten hard by the writing bug and decided to try my hand at fiction. And, on a whim one day, while waiting outside a courtroom for a hearing to begin, I started jotting down some thoughts on a legal pad and the main character—criminal defense attorney Hilary Adams—came into being. But even though I draw upon my experiences as an attorney, all of my work is fiction—none of my cases, clients, or fellow lawyers are even remotely re-constructed in my novels.
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By Ken Isaacson
Chuck Greaves's THE LAST HEIR is the third installment in his award-winning mystery series featuring trial lawyer Jack MacTaggart, who has been described as an attorney with the talents and ethics of Clarence Darrow combined with the charm and mischief of Jack Sparrow.
Philippe Giroux, estimable patriarch of the Chateau Giroux wine empire, has tragically lost a son. Or has he? Once confirmed by the court, Alain Giroux's death will pave the way for his brother Phil to inherit America's most storied winery. Or will it? Andy Clarkson, Alain's boyhood chum, covets the Chateau Giroux vineyard acreage for his neighboring golf resort. Or does he? Claudia Giroux, Philippe's hauntingly beautiful daughter, has proof that Alain's death may not have been all that it seems. Or does she?
As the scions of a privileged California wine dynasty grapple for control of their family's legacy, MacTaggart is caught in a cross-fire of estrangement, betrayal, and murder. To complicate matters, MacTaggart is being shadowed by film star Ethan Scott, who hopes to spin the dross of a family's private travails into box office gold.
Amid the stately oaks and sylvan vineyards of California's fabled Napa Valley, MacTaggart and his colleagues Marta "Mayday" Suarez and Regan Fife learn the hard way that while blood may be thicker than water, money is a powerful anticoagulant. As the long-buried secrets of a troubled family are finally revealed, only one question remains to be answered: Who will survive to become The Last Heir?
After twenty-five years as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, Chuck decided to pursue a writing career. His 2012 debut novel, HUSH MONEY, the first in the Jack MacTaggart series, won the SouthWest Writers' International Writing Contest and was a finalist for, among other honors, the Shamus, Rocky, Reviewer's Choice, and Audie Awards. The Los Angeles Times called Chuck's second novel, HARD TWISTED, a work of literary fiction based on a Depression-era true crime, "a gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film." In 2013, Jack MacTaggart returned in THE GREEN-EYED LADY, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston called "the wickedest read of the year."
Chuck is currently at work on his next historical novel. He's kindly agreed to answer some questions:
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Author Robert Rotstein returns with his sophomore release in his Parker Stern series, RECKLESS DISREGARD. Robert's background is cemented in Los Angeles, being an entertainment attorney for over thirty years. Robert grew up in Southern California and fell in love early with legal thrillers, especially the television shows Perry Mason and The Defenders. Robert graduated from UCLA law school and went into private practice shortly after, where he handled cases for many celebrities including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, and Lionel Ritchie.
His first book, CORRUPT PRACTICES, introduced fans to his character Parker Stern. He received many top reviews, including praise from New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton: "This is a terrific book…. A fresh take on the legal thriller… [with] maximum intrigue and suspense." Let's take a look inside RECKLESS DISREGARD:
Former topnotch attorney Parker Stern, still crippled by courtroom stage fright, takes on a dicey case for an elusive video game designer known to the world only by the name of "Poniard." In Poniard's blockbuster online video game, Abduction!, a real-life movie mogul is charged with kidnapping and murdering a beautiful actress who disappeared in the 1980s. Predictably, the mogul—William "the Conqueror" Bishop—has responded with a libel lawsuit. Now it's up to Parker to defend the game designer in the suit.
In defending Poniard, Parker discovers that people aren't always who they claim to be and that nothing is as it seems. At one point, his client resorts to blackmail, threatening to expose a dark secret about Parker. Then, many of the potential witnesses who could have helped the case die prematurely, and the survivors are too frightened to talk. Parker begins to feel as if he's merely a character in a video game, fighting malevolent Level Bosses who appear out of nowhere and threaten to destroy him.
THE BIG THRILL caught up with Robert for a few questions about his latest book.
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There's a secret train station beneath the Waldorf Astoria, reserved for the President of the United States, and a dead young woman found there with train tracks carved into her skin—but who killed her isn't the only secret lurking in the miles of dark tunnels stretching out from Grand Central Station.
TERMINAL CITY is the latest novel by Linda Fairstein to feature prosecutor Alex Cooper, and this is a case where the setting is truly a character.
The list of suspects couldn't be larger. More than 750,000 people go through Grand Central every day: commuters and tourists, police officers and buskers. There are hidden basements, secret staircases, and six hundred people living deep underground, mole people with their own mayor.
So how do you find a killer hiding in plain sight among the crowds—or staying in the dark, emerging only to kill?
Linda Fairstein, like her hero, worked as a prosecutor, so she knows the same courtrooms and locations she writes about.
Here's what she said about her latest novel, how she started—and how the adventures of Alex Cooper may end.
How is this novel different than what you've written before?
The challenge for any author writing a series is to make the experience seem fresh for readers who've been through the earlier books. I think it's important to have the characters evolve and learn from their past experiences, especially in a crime novel.
My protagonist, Alex Cooper, is a sex crimes prosecutor. I've got to make her tough enough for the courtroom and mean streets, but let her grow a personal life apart from the violence she sees. So TERMINAL CITY shows Alex's vulnerability as she struggles to balance her worlds with a changing relationship, and also takes us to an unexplored part of Manhattan that most folks aren't even aware exists.
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By Ian Walkley
To get to the truth, she'll have to break the code of the hills.
THE CODE OF THE HILLS is a powerful legal thriller from Nancy Allen, who practiced law for fifteen years, prosecuting over thirty jury trials, including murder and sexual offenses. It tells the story of ambitious Missouri prosecutor Elsie Arnold who anticipates a huge career boost when appointed to prosecute a high-profile case of incest. But the case soon begins to go sour. The star witness has gone missing; the three girls are reluctant to talk, their father terrorizes the courtroom; their tough-as-nails mother has ulterior motives, and mom's new boyfriend raises suspicion that there's more going on in this household than meets the eye. To make matters worse, Elsie begins to receive gruesome threats from religious extremists. With her job at stake, her personal life is taking a one-two punch. And the safety of three young girls hangs in the balance.
Nancy served as Assistant Missouri Attorney General and as Assistant Prosecutor in her native Ozarks (the second woman in Southwest Missouri to serve in that capacity). She is now an instructor of law at Missouri State University. THE CODE OF THE HILLS is her first novel.
Nancy, you must have a bundle of interesting cases and characters from your years as a prosecutor?
It can't be denied: the hill country of the Ozarks has more than its share of colorful characters, and in the practice of criminal law, I was exposed to the underbelly of the community. And because I was the only woman in the prosecutor's office when I joined the staff, I was assigned a great many sex cases. Handling those terrible offenses, I saw patterns that appear time and again: the generational history of abuse and the code of silence that surrounds it. It's important that people see the challenges of prosecuting these cases from the inside, and I wanted to tell a story that would shed light on the subject.
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By Rick Reed
With his powerhouse blend of imagination and legal expertise, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Grippando has become the go-to novelist for readers seeking intellectually provocative, relentlessly suspenseful, and tremendously entertaining thrillers that capitalize on his unique ability to anticipate tomorrow's headlines and make nail-biting "what if" scenarios frighteningly real.
Now Grippando brings back Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck for his most dangerous and politically charged case yet in BLACK HORIZON, the latest entry in the wildly popular Swyteck series.
As this exciting page-turner kicks off, Jack and his wife, undercover FBI agent Andie Henning, are honeymooning at a luxury resort in the Florida Keys when breaking news interrupts their idyllic getaway. Just three years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, once again millions of gallons of oil are spewing from a hole in the ocean floor after a deadly explosion aboard a massive rig. Only this time, the circumstances are even more nightmarish. The rig was in Cuban waters, just sixty miles from Key West, and the biggest manmade environmental catastrophe in history is headed not toward Havana, but straight for the U.S. coastline. The Cuban navy threatens to fire upon American cleanup equipment as "hostile invaders," and a geopolitical crisis looms, since the venture received its mineral lease from Cuba and its funding from a consortium that includes China, Russia, and Venezuela.
Not long after Andie's sudden departure for a secret assignment, Jack files a wrongful death suit on behalf of a young widow who lost her Cuban husband in the blaze. Jack expected an uphill legal battle, but his relentless search for the real cause of the catastrophe puts him, his career, and even his new marriage at risk. Was Andie called from their honeymoon because terrorists are behind the spill? Has the battle between Big Oil and environmental extremists reached a catastrophic fever pitch? Has the Cuban regime finally found the ultimate leverage against its capitalist neighbor? Is this an even broader political showdown on the world stage in which America's most powerful adversaries—China and Russia—intend to bring the White House to its knees? Jack is caught in the crosshairs of ruthless adversaries with a high-stakes agenda, pressured even by his own government to drop the case for the sake of national security.
Fighting for much more than his client's rights in a Key West courtroom, Jack plunges through a maze of international intrigue to find that the "accident" was indeed no accident—and that the force behind this raging disaster is an act of desperation more shocking than anyone could have imagined.
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SUDDEN IMPACT is more than a tale about a hit and run.
One rainy night in Sacramento, a cop never sees the car that struck him. The victim, Officer Tommy Ensor, is no ordinary cop. He's a hero, a devoted family man, and a coach to at-risk kids. When he dies as a result of the accident, the public, not to mention the Sacramento Police Department, want his killer.
But the driver who didn't stop isn't ordinary either. He's a judge. And in that split second, he did something so totally uncharacteristic it changed his life and the lives of everyone close to him.
The case is spearheaded by Terry Nye, head of Major Crimes, whose retirement is just weeks away. He is joined by his partner, Rose Tafoya, a smart, ambitious, and young detective who recently joined the unit. Adding to the difficulties of the case is the intense public scrutiny coupled with inter-departmental politics over the next chief of police—either of which could be career-enders.
As Nye and Tafoya search for Officer Ensor's killer, Judge Stevenson is presiding over a criminal case as if nothing is wrong. Stunned by the fact he didn't stop, he nevertheless has steeled himself to do what has to be done: compelled, he believes, to break the law in choreographing his cover-up.
This is William P. Wood's new page-turner, SUDDEN IMPACT.
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By Ian Walkley
KIRKUS REVIEWS describes E.C. Diskin's debut mystery-thriller THE GREEN LINE as "a satisfying, suspenseful novel with an engaging heroine…well drawn characters, knotty and believable puzzles, and an easy, confident writing style." After self-publishing the novel, successful sales and reviews on Amazon led to Thomas & Mercer approaching E.C. with an offer to publish under the Amazon imprint.
The story finds Chicago attorney Abby Donovan with her decade-long dream of partnership just months from fruition. But after a late-night train mishap leaves her stranded on Chicago's west side where drugs, gangs, and violence fill the streets, everything changes. Abby is haunted by what she's seen and the mysterious death of a kind stranger. Though her work suffers, deadlines are missed, and her promotion hangs in the balance, she's compelled to investigate with the help of an unlikely new friend. But Abby's investigation jeopardizes more than her career. Someone is watching. Someone willing to do anything to protect his secrets.
E.C. Diskin, a former Chicago attorney, spent several years in practice while fantasizing about chucking firm life for a more artistic one. After six years, and with a drawer full of story ideas and two toddlers at home, she finally did it. Diskin joined a writers group and began work on what became THE GREEN LINE. Though it took nearly a decade from start to publication, Diskin is now focused on a sequel and the completion of other works in progress.
Does the GREEN LINE really exist? Or is it fictionalized or symbolic in some way?
Oh, it's real. Though I wouldn't call it a uniformly "unsafe train"—it's a busy commuter train during the day, filled with all kinds of people. The fear for the character, and the real danger for any woman in particular, is being alone late at night in a dangerous neighborhood.
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My new thriller THE ADVERSARY deals with the very real threat posed by the sophisticated new generation of computer viruses exemplified by the Stuxnet virus. As reported in David Sanger's 2012 book CONFRONT AND CONCEAL Stuxnet was created through a collaboration between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies that succeeded in disrupting the centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment center, the heart of the Iranian nuclear program.
But a "smart bomb" computer virus like Stuxnet is different from a traditional weapon that is destroyed when it is detonated. A computer virus is made up of computer code that, once deployed, is out there in the world. THE ADVERSARY considers what might happen if a computer virus like Stuxnet was retooled by black hat hackers and turned back against our country as a weapon of cyberterrorism.
THE ADVERSARY is the first book in my new series featuring Chris Bruen, a former Department of Justice cybercrimes prosecutor who is now in private practice helping his clients combat hackers and cybercriminals. In what should have been a routine assignment in Amsterdam, Bruen finds a hacker's dead body and uncovers a hidden flash drive that contains the code for a remarkably sophisticated computer virus known as Lurker. Upon returning home, Bruen finds himself the target of a shadowy group of hackers who plan on unleashing Lurker, which will bring a major US city to its knees in seven days. Suddenly, Bruen finds that he's become the top suspect in an international manhunt and he must stay ahead of the FBI and CIA while he tries to decode the virus, find the hackers, and clear his name. With the lives of tens of thousands of people hanging in the balance, Bruen must go beyond the brink to stop the hackers.
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DEADLY DIAMONDS begins innocently enough. Michael Knight, a young lawyer, is asked to prevent an all-out mob war by brokering a deal between competing mobs over a stolen vehicle. As both sides respect his tough but fair method of operating, he seems an ideal choice. But to Michael things just don't add up. Knowing this, he never expected to find himself involved with diamonds and learning more than is comfortable with the evil circumstances surrounding the blood diamond trade.
John Dobbyn brings back the entire Michael Knight/Lex Devlin crew in his fourth novel, DEADLY DIAMONDS. The car stolen for a joy ride has the misfortune of having a dead body in the trunk. Then there is the question of why the son of an Irish mobster decides to steal an Italian mafia car for his joy ride in Italian mafia territory. And yes, the dead man belongs to the Italian mafia. Michael knows there is more than meets the eye in all of this. As he tries to make sense of it all he finds himself involved in life-threatening situations and a quest for information that leads from Boston to Dublin, to Sierra Leone, to Antwerp, and back again. And in this journey he finds an incredible man, a survivor of the diamond pits, who will move heaven and earth to reunite his family.
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Robert Rotstein grew up in Culver City, California. He earned an undergraduate degree from UCLA and graduated with honors from the UCLA School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review. After graduation, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, then Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and currently Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Robert then went into private practice with a Beverly Hills law firm whose practice focused on the entertainment industry and copyright law. His first trial involved a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a well-known science fiction writer against a major movie studio. He authored a law review article that explores the relationship between literary theory and copyright law, and has taught as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California. Robert is currently a partner in a major Los Angeles law firm, where he co-chairs the firm's intellectual property department. During his career, he's represented many well-known writers, producers, and musicians, and all the major studios. CORRUPT PRACTICES is his first novel and comes out this month from Seventh Street Books.
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Walter Walker, a high-powered attorney writing outstanding legal thrillers, is back after a self-imposed, sorely missed absence of almost twenty years with the publication of CRIME OF PRIVILEGE, rated "a stunning thriller" by GoodReads. His "god-given talent," recognised by James Lee Burke, is focused on a concern for social justice embodied in American values inculcated by family, church and school.
CRIME OF PRIVILEGE " is not only a first-class legal thriller, it is an astute examination of our society and how we are corrupted by power and money" –Nelson DeMille.
The nephews of a famous politician rape a woman in Palm Beach. Young George Becket is a silent witness. His reward comes in the form of admission to law school and then a low level prosecutor's job with the Cape Cod District Attorney.
Years later, the father of a murdered girl approaches a lonely, unfulfilled George Becket. Nobody seems to want to investigate her brutal death. Increasingly certain that the same person who committed the rape is responsible for the murder, George sets off on an investigation that takes him to Idaho, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and France, and that is as much about restoring his own self-worth as it is about finding the killer. As William Landay writes, "a twisting, engrossing, irresistible detective story."
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By Josie Brown
When a political candidate with a wandering eye wakes up naked in a stranger's home, where a priceless painting has been stolen, the first person he calls isn't his campaign manager, his press officer, or even his lawyer:
It's Jack MacTaggart.
GREEN-EYED LADY, the second novel in Chuck Greaves' mystery series, has all the elements readers loved in the first book, HUSH MONEY: slick sleuthing, snappy dialogue, a cavalcade of characters who leave you laughing, keep you guessing, and keep you up all night.
Here's what Chuck has to say about writing relatable heroes, and stories that keep you on the edge of your seat…
Wow, GREEN-EYED LADY sounds like my kind of book! I love mixing mystery with politics–and humor. So, how did the plot come to you?
During my 25 years as an L.A. trial attorney, I had occasion to handle a few cases with political implications, plus I served for many years as campaign treasurer for a friend who's an L.A.-area city councilman. But the genesis of GREEN-EYED LADY was actually a short story I wrote on spec, about an art heist. As I sat down to plot the next installment in my Jack MacTaggart series, I realized that the short story would be a perfect jumping-off point for a work of book-length fiction. So the man in the story – the sting victim – became a U.S. Senate candidate, and I was off to the races.
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James Grippando treats his fans to a new Jack Swyteck legal thriller, BLOOD MONEY. After a sensational trial with Swyteck as her attorney, a single-mom party girl is acquitted of murder charges over the death of her child daughter. Swyteck is caught in a media firestorm that accuses him of setting up million-dollar book and movie deals–blood money–for his notorious client. On the night of her release from jail, an angry rob attacks another woman who bears a striking resemblance to the infamous mom…who then disappears. As Swyteck deals with the aftermath of the trial and both the mysterious circumstances behind the stranger's assault and his former client's whereabouts, he untangles clues that led to the truth of the little girl's death and puts him in the crosshairs of her killer.
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Previews of DEAD PEASANTS have been unanimous in their praise:
Set in Fort Worth and skipping murderously across Texas, Houston attorney Larry Thompson has whipped out another legal thriller that will propel readers on a riveting ride. It adds up to another masterpiece with more twists than a cauldron of Lone Star rattlesnakes.
It's a five-star thriller that will keep you on edge until the shocking conclusion.
It's a must read for lovers of legal thrillers.
Thompson draws on his vast knowledge of the law and the courtroom to create colorful characters and spin a tale with twists at every turn of the page.
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Douglas Corleone's LAST LAWYER STANDING is a gritty, edge-of-your-seat crime novel set in a Hawaii that is unrecognizable to probably everyone but the criminal underworld of Oahu.
In this third Kevin Corvelli mystery, the hotshot defense lawyer takes on a pair of high-profile cases. In the first, Corvelli represents the governor of Hawaii who's had the misfortune of having his mistress turn up dead in an election year. In the second, Corvelli defends a career criminal, a man who once saved Corvelli's life, who's now on trial for murder.
The novel races along as the two cases ultimately intersect. Along the way, Corvelli is up against police corruption, Justice Department politics, an international assassin, and a shadowy figure who local criminals describe as "Keyser Söze's evil twin." Will Corvelli risk everything—including his life—to protect his clients? Will he be the last lawyer standing? You'll have to buy the book to find out.
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When a body is found on the outskirts of Halifax, rumors run wild about the victim's identity. But tattoo artist Kenzie Sloane knows exactly who she is. They share a tattoo… and a decade-old secret.
Lawyer Kate Lange remembers Kenzie Sloane. The former wild child was part of the same crowd that attracted her little sister, Imogen, before her death. Now Kenzie needs her help. And Kate needs answers.
But there are others who know about the tattoo and its history. And one of them is watching Kenzie's every move, waiting for the perfect moment to fulfill a dark promise that had been inked in her skin.
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Lawyer David Sloane is desperate to get through to his troubled teenaged son Jake and to keep him out of jail. So when his old friend, detective Tom Molia, suggests taking their sons on a guys-only camping trip, Sloane gratefully accepts. But the perfect excursion turns into a horrifying nightmare when the boys are arrested for vandalizing a general store, quickly convicted, and sentenced to the county-owned wilderness detention camp, Fresh Start.
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Chuck Greaves's award-winning novel, HUSH MONEY, is no ordinary mystery. To be sure, it's got all the usual markings of a bestseller: fast-paced, suspenseful, authentic, beautifully written. But what makes the novel so special is that it also manages to be both touching and hilariously funny.
The story begins when Jack MacTaggart, a new lawyer at an elite white-shoe Pasadena law firm, is assigned to represent a socialite whose champion show horse, Hush Puppy, dies under suspicious circumstances. What starts out as a routine litigation over an insurance claim, turns anything but as MacTaggart uncovers a blackmail scheme that implicates not only his client, but also the upper echelon of his law firm.
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell which is which?
When attorney Izzy McNeil's home is broken into, right after her boyfriend, Theo, moves in, she ignores the coincidence. When Theo is arrested on charges of fraud, she wants to believe he's innocent. But when a neighbor is found dead, she can't ignore that something is very, very wrong.
Izzy also can't forget how Theo was inexplicably turned down for a mortgage. Or his recent moody silences. Or how a stranger warned her that Theo needs to "accept responsibility "
By Derek Gunn
CHAOS ERUPTS at the U.S. Supreme Court when an assassin guns down six justices as they are hearing a case.
…and this is in the very first chapter. I read this one in two sittings, in fact my son was lucky to get collected at all. I don't normally read court room thrillers, although this can't really be described as taking place in the court room. It takes place in and around the complex working of the US legal system. The killing of six Justices has left a huge hole in the legal system and the investigation is ongoing through a combined task force of FBI, Homeland Security etc., but little head way is being made.
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By George Ebey
John F. Dobbyn is the author a series of legal thrillers featuring attorneys Lex Devlin and Michael Knight. His first book, NEON DRAGON, had Lex and Michael going up against the Chinese Tong. The second book, FRAME UP, put them in a clash between the Italian and Russian mafias. Now Lex and Michael are back in their latest thriller, BLACK DIAMOND.
This time around, the intrepid duo agrees to defend a jockey accused of murdering a fellow jockey during a race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. A personal attachment to the murdered jockey thrusts Michael and Lex into the midst of a conflict between Boston's Irish mafia and criminal remnants of the terrorist branch of the Irish Republican Army. As Michael and Lex uncover layer after layer of deception involved in the underside of horse racing, they become a liability to both gangs. In action that shuttles between Ireland and Boston, the lives of both lawyers and those close to them are in the crosshairs of the gangs on both sides of the Atlantic.
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By Gary Kriss
If silence is indeed golden, attorney R. J. Jagger may be one of the world's richest men. And while lawyers tend to be circumspect, Jagger, who practices in Colorado, makes Miho seem like SinCity's most garrulous gasbag.
Which is just as well, since sawing off a woman's head is probably cause for disbarment in the Centennial State.
And beheading's just a starter.
The full litany of grisly crimes can be found in LAWYER TRAP, Jagger's latest novel, which is being released on November 16 by Pegasus. Jagger might be close-mouthed about his personal life, but he's perfectly willing to let everything all hang out in his books.
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In L.A. practicing law can be hell. Especially if you're dead.
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2005-2010 Pontiac G6 4 Door Sedan Power Textured Black Mirror Passenger Side
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International Motorcycle Shows: New Features
2011-2012 International Motorcycle Shows
The Progressive International Motorcycle Shows is thrilled to announce the new line-up of exciting show features for their 12-city cross country 2011-2012 Tour.
Starting with the first show in San Mateo, Calif., on Nov. 18, 2011, and ending in Daytona Beach, Fla., for Bike Week in March 2012, show goers will enjoy a variety of interactive experiences to entertain, educate and inspire.
Included in the price of admission, the three-day shows will showcase the newest models from more than 25 of the top motorcycle manufacturers, feature several of the industry's most coveted luxury bikes in the "Dream Pavilion," host the largest custom bike competition in the world, debut a vintage motorcycle exhibition, launch the all-new Kawasaki Design-A-Bike interactive digital painting experience and much more.
With more bikes on the floor than ever before, and a newly expanded tour wide presence from Ducati and Triumph, the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows are definitely a one-stop shop for all motorcycle needs.
Amid the recent announcement of the Smage Bros Stunt Show joining the Tour following their successful finals bid on the summer's most popular nationally televised talent competition, they will surely excite the crowds with their amazing stunts and acrobatic motorcycle moves. With these all-new show features, attendees can expect to ride, touch, feel, see and smell the excitement of all motorcycle lifestyles at the 2011-2012 Progressive International Motorcycle Shows.
Kerry Graeber (Brand Director, Progressive IMS) says: "After last year's shows concluded, we worked incredibly hard to talk to both non-show goers and loyal enthusiast attendees to identify new ways to add value to the ticket for everyone, broaden our current enthusiast motorcycle market and find new ways to reach entirely new audiences.
"We wanted to give our consumers more to do and see throughout their time at the shows and we have certainly achieved it. We will also have new model debuts, dozens of manufacturers represented and more exciting attractions to make this show wall-to-wall bikes and wall-to-wall excitement."
Motorcycle Manufacturers for the 2011-2012 Progressive International Motorcycle Shows:
This year's Progressive International Motorcycle Shows tour offers attendees the chance to see all the latest products from more than 25 manufacturers in select markets, in one centrally-located area.
Tour wide manufacturers bringing their full arsenal of new 2012 product to fans across the nation include Bombardier (BRP), Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Star, Suzuki, Triumph and Yamaha. Other key manufacturers are slated to participate in select markets: BMW (Long Beach, New York), Indian (Long Beach, New York), Victory (Long Beach, New York, Chicago) and Zero Motorcycles (New York, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Daytona Beach).
Features Showcase for the 2011-2012 Progressive International Motorcycle Shows:
- Dream Pavilion
Walk the red carpet into the Dream Pavilion and let your motorcycle imagination run wild. Dedicated enthusiasts will enjoy the ability to see, touch, sit on and experience some of the rarest and most expensive motorcycles in the world. Numerous bikes from a variety of prestigious brands including Aprilia, Beta, Darwin Motorcycles, Ducati, Erik Buell Racing, Gas Gas, Husqvarna, KTM, Moto Guzzi, MV Agusta and Norton will be on display. This is definitely the place to dream big and to start making that fantasy motorcycle become a reality. - Smage Bros Stunt Show
Let's face it! Amazing, incredible, unbelievable and awesome are the words that come to mind in describing the acrobatic motorcycle moves of the Smage Bros Stunt Show. Many of us only dream of doing the kinds of things these two brothers can do on two wheels. Straight off the summer's hottest reality television talent competition, Pat and Phil Smage, now well known as the Smage Bros Stunt Show will be on tour with the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows for each of the 12 stops on the tour. This entertainment feature will impress audiences with their death-defying stunts where they take their stunt riding backgrounds to the next level with a brand new, never-before-seen show sure to make eyes pop and jaws drop. - The Learning Curve
For both new and veteran riders who want to enhance their current riding skills, The Learning Curve provides the perfect place to go to increase motorcycle IQ. When visiting The Learning Curve, leading industry specialists will be onsite providing consumers with key information on the latest and greatest in motorcycle technology, new motorcycles on the market, gear, motorcycle safety, maintenance and much more. The Learning Curve will also play host to dedicated content for our female riding audience, providing an intimidation-free setting for women to gain practical equipment and industry knowledge. Every show on the 2011-2012 tour will offer The Learning Curve, an area for new and experienced riders alike to enjoy numerous unique and interactive seminars of a variety of topics presented by leading industry experts. - Demo Rides (California markets only)
Licensed motorcyclists who bring their own riding gear, including a helmet, will be able to test ride the hottest new bikes from a variety of manufacturers during the Shows, in select markets. These manufacturer-hosted demo rides will offer consumers the opportunity to throw a leg over the industry's newest models and take one out for a ride. Attendees can visit the Demo Rides feature page of the website to see which motorcycle manufacturers will be participating in the program at participating shows. - Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show
The Tour will launch the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show, an elite-level custom motorcycle builder competition, in San Mateo, Calif., the first stop of its nationwide tour. Contestants are encouraged to enter at any and all of the 12 shows for a chance to win a piece of the $90,000 cash purse, more than any builder competition in the world. Four cash prize winners will be chosen at each show and at a special United States Championship finale set to take place at the Daytona Beach Progressive International Motorcycle Show during Daytona Bike Week, March 12-17, 2012. With more than 500 custom-built bikes on display across the country, the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show sets itself apart as the world's largest touring custom bike competition. The Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show will host four classes of competition including Hot Bike's Modified Harley, Super Streetbike's Performance Custom Sportbike, Freestyle and, new this year, Retro Mod. Judging will be conducted by the competitors themselves, with the top builders in each class receiving awards, in addition to a special "People's Choice" award given to the builder who receives the most votes from show attendees. An awards ceremony will take place at each show where winners will receive cash prizes and trophies followed by a short interview so attendees can learn the story behind the award-winning bikes. Attendees who vote for the "People's Choice" award are automatically entered to win a custom-built Honda Fury, sponsored by Motorcycle-USA.com. The customized Honda Fury built by Motorcycle-USA.com will be featured at each of the tour stops, located at the Motorcycle-USA.com voting center, next to the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show. One winner will be selected at the conclusion of the Tour during Daytona Bike Week. Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show coverage and results will be posted at Motorcycle-USA.com - Kawasaki Design-A-Bike
One of the hottest new features for this year's show series, Kawasaki Design-A-Bike, will give riders the unique and exclusive opportunity to design their own virtual Kawasaki motorcycle in this one-of-a-kind interactive display. Attendees to the 2011-2012 shows will be the first to experience an incredible new technology, released for the first time in the United States, to be unveiled at all 12 shows this season. Kawasaki Design-A-Bike puts the digital paint can in show goers' hands by turning a new Kawasaki into their canvases. By providing a digital interface and easy to use creative tools, anyone can mock up a personalized motorcycle. These custom digital renderings are then saved so "designers" may print copies as a show souvenir, post to the internet on Facebook to emailed to share with friends. - "A Century of Motorcycling" Presented by Motorcyclist Magazine
Motorcyclist Magazine will celebrate its 100 year anniversary with a display of bikes from every decade over the past 100 years, celebrating not only the magazine's heritage, but the heritage and history of motorized transportation and exhilaration of life on two wheels. Staff from the National Motorcycle Museum will also be on hand to answer questions and relive stories of the historic bikes on display. - Swag Wagon, presented by Allstate
The Swag Wagon, presented by Allstate, aims to keep the show floor fun and light-hearted, while providing show goers with an assortment of floor gifts, prizes and fun for all. Operated by the Swag Master, the Swag Wagon will traverse the show floor testing guests on their moto-knowledge and more. With a correct answer, participants win a gift, but guess wrong and participants still get a gift! This freebie-machine will have all attendees leaving with smiles on their faces. - Rider Connection, presented by Allstate
Rider Connection, presented by Allstate, will serve as a four-star concierge service for attendees looking to discover and evaluate local motorcycling opportunities, the latest bikes and products and how to make the most of their show experience. - Free Motorcycle Parking and Gear Check (Select markets only)
There is nothing worse than having to lug riding gear around a show. For enthusiasts who choose to ride their motorcycles, free parking and a free Gear Check station will be available and show goers will be able to check their gear at the door. In San Mateo, Calif., Dallas, Texas, Long Beach, Calif., Novi, Mich., and Daytona Beach, Fla., riders may, for free, park their bikes and securely check in their jackets, helmets, bags and other items they would otherwise have to carry throughout out the show.


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View from the Berry Hill Fire Tower near Bowman Lake. We had special permission to be in this tower. Normally it is locked up.
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Lucky you. That's an awesome view.
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We had special permission to be there. Normally there is a gate across the stairs and the cab door is also locked.
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They talked about it quite a bit. Howard thought you might have been locked up reading quickly, and they wondered how the window got opened.
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Thanks, I missed it!
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Congratulations! In case you missed it this on was just on the news. Neat shot!


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Sometimes all Rick Pitino can do is laugh when the topic of conversation turns to Russ Smith, the University of Louisville's All-America senior guard.
If there's a word that best describes the 12th-ranked Cardinals' best player, it hasn't made the dictionary yet.
Saturday's 87-70 victory over Central Florida put Smith's turbulent talent on full display. He scored 27 points from an efficient 9-of-14 shooting performance. He had five rebounds, two assists and two steals and scored eight of the Cards' first 10 points. ...


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NBC is going to have some explaining to do after it was slapped with a proposed class action lawsuit by former unpaid interns, claiming the broadcast company violated federal labor laws.
The suit includes former interns from NBC's "Saturday Night Live" as well as the booking department for MSNBC, and seeks more than $5 million in damages, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC joins Fox Searchlight Pictures in the growing list of media companies being sued in federal court for allegedly stiffing their interns, with plaintiffs claiming these companies violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The complaint asserts that NBCUniversal's unpaid interns essentially substituted for normal workers, a violation of federal and state standards for minimum wage and overtime.
The New York-based media giant was also accused of failing to provide any academic or vocational training for its unpaid interns, making its internship program little more than a portal for free workers.
If this suit is successful, a court ordered injunction may force NBC to reform their internship policies.
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Located in the jungle of Dong Hua Sao, Tad Fane is a picturesque twin set of waterfalls spilling 200 metres down into a deep gorge (swimming opportunities are not available unless you take a half-day hike to a proper area). After enjoying and photographing the impressive falls, our journey continues to the ethnic minority villages of the Lavai and Yaheune tribes, and visits the famous coffee and tea plantations before returning to Pakse.
DURATION : 08:00 – 12:00 or 13:30 – 17:30 hrs
Daily (08:00 – 12:00, 13:30 – 17:30 hrs) |
Excursion by car to the visit the impressive and scenic Tad Fane Waterfalls located on the fascinating Boloven Plateau. The Boloven Plateau, which was formed by an ancient volcano, is famous for its agricultural products including many coffee and tea plantations. The plateau has a number of tribal villages, some of them still practicing Stone Age culture. They use extremely primitive agriculture tools and conduct frequent spiritual ceremonies. En-route, visit the ethnic minority villages of the Lavai and Yaheune tribes. Also stop to visit a tea and coffee plantation before returning to Pakse. |
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Daily from Pakse hotels |
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Morning: 08:00 – 12:00 hrs |
Transfer from/to hotel included |
Meals included |
Seat-in-coach tour |
Private tour |
Minimum 1 person |
Language |
English, French |
Daily (08:00 – 12:00, 13:30 – 17:30 hrs) |
Includes - Transportation from/to hotels in Pakse. |
Excludes - Personal expenses such as cell phone, drinks, tip etc. |
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Dordt College Men's Basketball vs. Hastings
February 9, 2008
Game Media
(Sioux Center, Iowa) The Dordt College Defenders survived a six minute drought at the end of regulation to upend the Hastings College Broncos 65-61 in overtime Saturday at the De Witt Gym in Sioux Center, Iowa. The win upped the Dordt College record to 17-7 for the season and kept them in a tie for second in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.
The game was tied four times in the first half and once in the second half when Michael Etzemiller tapped in a missed shot for Hastings as time expired to send the game to overtime at 53-53. The Defenders led with 6:34 left in the game, 50-36. The two teams started the game tight with Dordt trailing 10-8 with 13:04 left in the first half. The Defenders went on a 5-0 run to take the lead with Michael Eekhoff capping the run with a driving lay-up with 10:38 left in the game. Eekhoff battled foul trouble the entire game and scored just two field goals the entire game. Dordt pushed the lead to 26-17 with 3:09 left in the half when Chad Huenink cashed in a pair of free throws and the Defenders went into the locker room up 26-19 as both teams went the final 2:42 without scoring.
Dordt controlled most of the second half, taking a double digit lead at 33-23 with 16:35 left on a Scott Van Zanten three-pointer. The Broncos challenged and got the lead down to five on a Scott Wissing jump shot to make it 36-31 with 12:36 left in the game. Dordt seemed to take control of the game for the next six minutes as they outscored the visitors 14-5 for their biggest lead of the game at 50-36 on a Russ Griese basket. Michael Etzelmiller responded immediately with a bank shot three-pointer to start the charge back by the Broncos. Hastings would eventually get it to 50-45 on another Wissing basket with 3:35 remaining. An Eric Van Maanen basket broke the run but the Broncos put together another string that made it 52-51 on a dunk by Bobby Kempf with :14 left in regulation. Mark Rowenhorst was fouled on the ensuing play and made one of two free throws.
After a Hastings timeout the Broncos got a shot by Waid Vontz for the tie from the left wing that bounced off but Etzelmiller was in the right place for a tap in as the horn sounded.
Tied 53-53, Dordt scored first and never trailed in the extra session with Logan Kingma making a three-pointer at the 3:32 mark of the extra period. Eric Van Maanen made one free throw at the 2:54 for four point lead by Wissing made a shot to cut the lead in half with 2:30 remaining. A Brian Eekhoff basket stretched it to four again and a jumper by Logan Kingma gave teh Defenders a 61-55 lead with 1:55 on the clock. The two teams then played a scoreless minute with Hastings only getting as close as two again at the :07 mark on another Michael Etzelmiller three point bank shot. Logan Kingma iced the game with a pair of made free throws with :04 left and then the steal on the other end to seal it.
Dordt had an uncharacteristic 26 turnovers in the win while making 22-49 shots from the floor and 4-15 three-pointers. The Defenders were a paltry 17-31 from the free throw line and just 7-17 in the second half and overtime. Hastings made 22-65 shots and were 3-21 on the three-point line. The Broncos were event poorer than the Defenders at the free throw line, making just 14-27.
Dordt was led by Logan Kingma's 19 points on 5-9 shooting and 3-5 three-pointers. Chad Huenink came off the bench for 12 and Scott Van Zanten added eight. Eric Van Maanen and Brian Eekhoff both had seven. Kingma led all players with 12 rebounds and two steals. Huenink, Mark Rowenhorst and Van Zanten all had six rebounds and Michael Eekhoff had four assists.
Hastings was paced by Bobby Kempf with 14 points and Derrick Spooner and Scott Wissing both had 12 while Etzelmiller had 10 points and 11 rebounds with five steals.
The Defenders travel to Mount Marty on Wednesday, February 13 to face Mount Marty.
GPAC Scores from Saturday:
Dordt 65, Hastings 61 ot
Morningside 88, Doane 68
Nebraska Wesleyan 70, Mount Marty 61
Northwestern 87, Concordia 84 ot
Briar Cliff 71, Sioux Falls 55
Dana @ Dakota Wesleyan (Sunday)
GPAC Standings
Morningside 13-1
Dordt 11-3
Dakota Wesleyan 11-3
Northwestern 11-3
Briar Cliff 10-5
Hastings 8-7
Sioux Falls 6-8
Nebraska Wesleyan 6-8
Doane 5-9
Dana 5-9
Concordia 4-11
Mount Marty 2-12
Midland Lutheran 1-14
Dordt's Current Record: 17-7 (11-3)
Opponent's Current Record: 18-9 (8-7)
Team | 1st Half | 2nd Half | OT 1 | Final |
Dordt College | 26 | 27 | 12 | 65 |
Hastings | 19 | 34 | 8 | 61 |
Dordt Rebounding Leaders | Total |
Logan Kingma | 12 |
Mark Rowenhorst | 6 |
Scott Van Zanten | 6 |
Brian Eekhoff | 5 |
Team Total: | 45 |
Opponent Rebounding Leaders | Total |
Michael Etzelmiller | 11 |
Scott Wissing | 6 |
Kyle Wamsley | 5 |
Team Total: | 36 |
Dordt Scoring Leaders | Total |
Logan Kingma | 19 |
Chad Huenink | 12 |
Scott Van Zanten | 8 |
Brian Eekhoff | 7 |
Team Total: | 65 |
Opponent Scoring Leaders | Total |
Bobby Kempf | 14 |
Derrik Spooner | 12 |
Scott Wissing | 12 |
Michael Etzelmiller | 10 |
Team Total: | 61 |
Dordt Team Shooting | Pct | |
Field Goals: | 18/44 | 41% |
3-Point Field Goals: | 3/13 | 23% |
Free Throws: | 14/22 | 64% |
Opponent Team Shooting | Pct | |
Field Goals: | 19/56 | 34% |
3-Point Field Goals: | 2/15 | 13% |
Free Throws: | 13/21 | 62% |
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Doctor Oz's Show today (March 9, 2011) was called Dr Oz: Ultimate Checklist Antioxidants. Dr Oz originally aired this show on December 1, 2010, but in case you missed it, I will give you links to the recaps below. One of my favorite segments was when Doctor Oz spoke about the importance of the Super […]
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Dr Oz Antioxidants Ultimate Checklist: March 9 2011
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Dr Oz Ultimate Checklist: Antioxidants: Phenolic, Ellagic Acid & More
By Dr Oz Fans on December 1, 2010
Dr Oz's Ultimate Checklist: Antioxidants show covered all of Doctor Oz's favorite antioxidants including Phenolic Antioxidants, Ellagic Acid Antioxidants, Anthocyanin Antioxidants, Indole 3 Carbinol Antioxidants and ACE (Vitamins A, C and E). What are antioxidants? Where can you find antioxidants? Dr Oz answered all of these important questions. We always hear him talking about how […]
Dr Oz: Beets: The Super Antioxidant & Dr Oz's Beet Recipe
By Dr Oz Fans on December 1, 2010
Dr Oz's Ultimate Checklist: Antioxidants show included a segment called The Super Antioxidant You're Not Eating: Beets. Doctor Oz said that beets boost your brain. In fact, there are many health secrets hidden in beets. Even if you think beets are bland and tasteless, have an open mind. When I was a child, my mother […]


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Thursday, November 6 2014
The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again
The tale of the musical journey of the Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—from a house in Lubbock, Texas to a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall.
Tuesday, September 11 2012
The Flatlanders: The Odessa Tapes
The 14 tracks here suggest the wide open spaces of Texas (where the studio was located) more than the countrypolitan sophistication of Nashvegas.
Thursday, May 7 2009
The Flatlanders: Hills and Valleys
The Flatlanders return to remind country music of what it has lost and where to find it.
Friday, April 24 2009
The Flatlanders keep rolling through 'Hills and Valleys'
You might not be able to see the world from the Lone Star metropolis of Lubbock. But according to Butch Hancock, you can stand on


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Elder Scrolls Online is the biggest game that all the MMO gamers are looking forward to seeing very soon. Game managed to turn few heads around at the bit E3 2012 event, while few gaming site's got few of the developers to talk about the game, Giant Bomb managed to catch up with the monster combat designer of Elder Scrolls Online, Maria Aliprando.
She details some of the gameplay details, including Alliance War modes of the game and the few minor details like using the compass to find great things in the game as well as socializing with friends, while showing some gameplay footage from the game.
Check out the video for the interview.
As a bonus, you can check out the interview of Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Paul Sage.
[Via: E3 Wrap: The Elder Scrolls Online Bethesda Blog]
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ThursdayOct 20 2011PDXPUG: Upgrading PostGIS–
IovationWhen: 7-9pm Thu Oct 20, 2011 Where: Iovation Who: Brent Dombrowski What: Upgrading PostGIS from 8.something to 9.0
See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.
ThursdayJan 19 2012
ThursdayFeb 16 2012
ThursdayMar 15 2012PDXPUG: NoSQL for People Living Under a Rock–
IovationSee PDXPUG blog (linked) for details. Also, "beware the Ides of March", &c.
ThursdayApr 19 2012
ThursdayMay 17 2012
ThursdayJun 21 2012
ThursdayAug 16 2012
ThursdaySep 20 2012PDXPUG: Sqitch–
IovationSee PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.
Sqitch information is at http://sqitch.org/
ThursdayNov 15 2012
ThursdayJan 17 2013
ThursdayFeb 21 2013
ThursdayMar 21 2013PDXPUG: Autovacuum and You–
IovationAutovacuum's like a Roomba, right? You just turn it on and it does all the work for you. Well, not quite – for one, your pets can't ride around on it – and occasionally it may get stuck in a (figurative) corner. In this talk, we'll discuss vacuum, analyze, and their daemonic counterparts: how to adjust them to perform appropriately*, and perhaps more importantly, what the heck are they actually doing?
This is a beginner-to-intermediate level talk, but you will learn something new about vacuuming, regardless.** –
Gabrielle Roth is a consultant with EnterpriseDB. She specializes in network, database, and system monitoring, as well as abusing SQL.
After-meeting beer location: Huber's, the oldest bar in Portland. See you there!
ThursdayApr 18 2013
ThursdayMay 16 2013
ThursdayJun 20 2013
ThursdayAug 15 2013
TuesdayAug 20 2013PDX Cassandra Users Group–
IovationThe focus of this meeting will be the local users of Cassandra. In an effort to 'bootstrap' the group there will be a presentation of some of the ways iovation uses Cassandra in our various tests. Please come with additional thoughts about ways you might want to see your user group shape itself.
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ThursdayJun 19 2014
ThursdaySep 18 2014PDXPUG: September meeting–
IovationPortland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.
When: 7-9pm Thu Sep 18, 2014 Where: Iovation Who: Jay Riddle What: Using Postgresql to enable Google like Search
Jay's been experimenting with Pg's full text search capabilities. At our next meeting, he'll cover the following: * Brief intro on why Google like search capabilities are fun. * Introduce Postgresql full text abilities. Discuss at a high level why a full text index may be a bit heavier than a normal index. * Look at possible solutions for use cases where the data you want to index is spread across multiple columns and multiple tables.
Jay Riddle is a database administrator at Viewpoint software.
Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!
Elevators open at 6:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 7:30.
The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.
See you there!
TuesdaySep 23 2014PDX Women in Tech Happy Hour Networking Event–
IovationCome join an amazing group for happy hour at iovation! Be sure to find Amber Pham, Manager of Information Security at iovation. Read our newsletter for more fun facts about her; it's a great conversation starter!
PDX Women in Tech exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!
ThursdayOct 16 2014PDXPUG: October meeting–
IovationWhat: PgOpen Recap (gabrielle, Mark, John M); New Relic Instrumentation of Pg Queries (Andrew)
Please note the new earlier meeting time! We'll try this over the winter.
Two topics this month: PgOpen attendees will discuss highlights of that conference, and Andrew will talk about some New Relic-y stuff.
Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!
Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.
ThursdayNov 20 2014
ThursdayJan 15 2015PDXPUG: January meeting–
IovationWhen: 6-8pm Thu Jan 15, 2015 Where: Iovation Who: Gabrielle Roth What: RDS Postgres
Amazon integrated Postgres into their general Relational Database Services (RDS) offerings July 1, 2014. RDS offers automatic failover, scalability, and easy configuration, plus Amazon handles all the patching and upgrades for you! Their SDK supports many languages and includes a robust CLI, if you want to automate management of your deployments. They also support several popular Postgres extensions.
Of course, since it's a managed service, you can't do everything you might expect or want to. In this talk, I'll discuss the fun, the quirky, and the downright maddening features I've discovered working with production RDS deployments. Come find out what it's like to use RDS Postgres day-to-day.
The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.
We'll go to Huber's for after-meeting socializing.
See you there!
ThursdayFeb 19 2015PDXPUG: February meeting–
IovationWhen: 6-8pm Thu Feb 19, 2015
Where: Iovation
Who: David Kerr
What: Using Bucardo to Migrate your Pg database to RDS with minimal downtimeAs a followup to January's RDS discussion, Dave Kerr works through strategies to move your existing Postgres database into RDS.
Using Bucardo and Master/Master Replication we can achieve a migration to RDS with minimal or no downtime.
Dave will show some tools and techniques so help facilitate this transition as well as go over the idiosyncrasies of using Bucardo with RDS.
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The countdown is on; with not long to go until the Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO) in Glasgow, now in its 18th year, we thought we'd give you a rundown of what you can expect from this evening of top British and international artists (and you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a good helping glitz and bling thrown in).
The night is set to be full of unforgettable performances from a diverse range of acts. Set to storm the stage is Australian rap sensation, Iggy Azalea along with euphoric sounds from Rudimental and multi-award-winning London artist, Tinie Tempah, all of which are bound to get you on your feet. Perhaps most widely anticipated to perform is the breakthrough soul singer Laura Mvula, whose stunning debut album was released earlier this year.
So Solid Crew are reforming especially for what is bound to be an energetic performance from the MC collective and former MOBO winners. Their biggest hit, 21 Seconds (remember that one?), was described by the Daily Telegraph as a 'club smash' delivered by 'grime's amply-staffed pioneers ' and features in the publications list of 100 songs that defined the noughties.
Audiences will also be treated to performances from Afrobeats star Fuse ODG and powerhouse vocalist Jahmene Douglas, finalist of TV talent show X Factor. As well as top-class entertainment, artists from a variety of genres and categories will pick up awards.
The MOBO Awards are part of the packed programme of music events set to take place in the newly-opened SSE Hydro arena this month. Located right beside the River Clyde near the heart of the city, this spaceship-style 'music Coliseum' is the perfect venue for this vibrant awards ceremony. This will be the third time the MOBO Awards have been held in Scotland's largest city.
There's still time to get one of the hottest tickets in town, with prices starting at only £25. Why not make a weekend of it and enjoy the city's great shopping, restaurants, bars and nightlife?
Glasgow, are you ready for MOBO 18? We are.
Tickets are available from TicketSoup.
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Desert Hills, Maricopa County, Arizona
Desert Hills, Arizona | |
Unincorporated community | |
Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona |
Country | United States |
State | Arizona |
County | Maricopa |
Elevation | 1,863 ft (568 m) |
Time zone | Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings (UTC-7) |
ZIP codes | 85085, 85086 |
Area code(s) | 623 |
Desert Hills is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Sitting on over 16 square miles (41 km2) of the 85086 Zip Code, And the (623) Area Code, forming the southern boundary of Anthem about 30 miles (48 km) north of downtown Phoenix. Located east of the I-17, Desert Hills is roughly bounded by 35th Avenue to the west, Desert Hills Drive to the north, 28th Street to the east, and the Carefree Highway to the south. Note a community known as Tramonto, falls within these boundaries but is considered part of Phoenix.
Desert Hills Estates[edit]
The once nameless rural area got its name from a .25 square mile community on the northwest corner of 7th Street and Joy Ranch Road, consisting of million dollar housing, the rest of the area is largely horse farms, no crop farms as the land is not fertile enough for farming.
The Geographic Names Information System database of the United States Geological Survey does not have a listing for Desert Hills itself, but includes listings for:
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Desert Hills Interchange
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Desert Hills Evangelical Free Church
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Desert Hills Fellowship Church
Coordinates: 33°35′31″N 111°53′47″W / 33.5920407°N 111.8963565°W
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(Australia 17 Nov 1831 – 15 Apr 1867)
106.1 x 147.7 board; 117.0 x 158.6 x 6.0 cm frame
The first Australian-born artist to study in Europe, Adelaide Ironside aspired to history painting, the highest category of art in her day. 'The marriage at Cana of Galilee 1861' – the most important painting of her career – portrays Christ's first public miracle, the transformation of water into wine during the marriage feast at Cana in Galilee.
Painted in Rome, 'The marriage' was exhibited at the Colonial Court of the 1862 International Exhibition in London. It was returned to Sydney after the artist's premature death, and was owned for many years by the all-male St Paul's College, University of Sydney.
Janine Burke, Australian women artists 1840-1940, 'A banner of her own design: Adelaide Ironside', pg. 18-23, Collingwood, 1980, 21, 124 (colour illus.), 169, 170. plate 47; Collection of St Paul's College, University of Sydney.
Joan Kerr (Editor), Heritage: The national women's art book, Sydney, 1995, 212 (colour illus.). cat.no. 359. Entry by Pamela Bell. Biography by Ruth Teale pg. 378-379.
Joan Kerr, A singular voice: essays on Australian art and architecture, 'Views, visages, invisibility: Themes in the art of colonial New South Wales', pg. 22-35, Sydney, 2009, 23 (illus.), 24, 44.
Joan Kerr, Australian art collector, 'Colonial Phoenix: the market for Colonial art needs to be revised and renovated', pg. 72-74, Sydney, Oct 2001-Dec 2001, 73 (colour illus.).
John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, 'Shelter of freedom and boast of the world', pg. 225-270, Sydney, 2008, 246-247 (colour illus.), 248, 250.
Bernard William Smith, Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788, 'Art and gold', pg. 73-87, South Melbourne, 1979, 84-85, 86 (illus.). plate no. 31
Gough Whitlam, My Italian notebook, Sydney, 2002, front dust jacket (colour illus.).
Great Exhibition, London 1862, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 1862–1862
(Adelaide Ironside) 1871, NSW Academy of Art, 1871–1871
Opening exhibition of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Sep 1880–22 Sep 1880
Renaissance References in Australian Art, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 13 Aug 1985–20 Sep 1985
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995


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Cancer Control Research
5R03CA113158-02Love, Gail D.
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Purpose of this study is to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between video-based culturally sensitive health-related messages and cervical cancer screening knowledge, attitudes and compliance behavior among Thai women in Southern California. A communication intervention in the form of an entertainment-education (EE) video embedded within a health education program will be field tested. The seven-minute, Thai-language video will be in a soap-opera format using Thai actors and actresses. Building on the successful EE communication strategy and social modeling theory, the video will demonstrate positive and negative role models. Characters will discuss facts and misinformation about cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening, the cancer's association with sexually promiscuous behavior and sexually transmitted diseases, and barriers to screening including women's reluctance toward and discomfort about getting a Pap smear. Both Lewinian theory in group dynamics and the concept of parasocial interaction (interaction between audience members and television role models) will guide the health educator's discussion and interaction with subjects after they view the video. Four hundred Thai women, ages 20+ will be recruited in various locations throughout the Los Angeles area, including Thai temples, markets, workplaces, and other community sites, and randomly assigned to two groups: Group #1 will receive a pretest survey, see the video and participate in an interpersonal and Q/A discussion with the educator and receive a post-test survey. Group #2, the control group, will receive a pre-test survey for baseline data and have no intervention. Subjects in both groups will receive a follow-up questionnaire in six months personally administered by the educator. Statistical significance of the differences in mean change scores for the groups will be calculated by t-tests, using an alpha of 5 percent. Results from this study will inform future video-based education efforts, particularly focused on small, "harder to reach" populations across the U.S.